Spike's TUT: A Closer Look - Part One

for your treachery against Pharaoh Akhenaton your soul will rot for eternity it's a very harsh opening but we thought it merited it because it was showing the gravitas of being Pharaoh are you ready to lead your people I am I think most people know anything about King Tut know that he took the rein as a young boy imagine any kid now in third grade suddenly told her the ruler of an empire I will serve you as eyes of your father I will protect you we just felt from the very beginning it would be important to show the origin of how this came about this is really the story about this Pharaoh who's been manipulated from the time he was first made King people long for Pharaoh who leads from outside the shadow it's all about car training and teaching time and also being very honest with him I've yet to see you do anything he's become the voice of reason for Tut you know the one that allows tuck to look in the mirror and say I need to do better and I can't continue just to be at the strings of the puppeteers you've never even been out amongst young people he blends in because nobody really knows what the pharaoh looks like he's always kept their distance we see him kind of being more or less a knob just how busy his town Thebes is I think we wanted to create a scenario that felt relevant to today you're one of the things that's interesting in ancient Egypt is beer was a big part of people's lives you've purchased beautiful now would be the equivalent of today's bar and he meets the girl and we thought that was kind of a fun way to connect our world to theirs is that how we measure greatness in the number of dead left to know awake it is measured by the number who were allowed to live peacefully because of it the three main players general Horemheb the high priest of moon and the Vizier I all have their own agendas and everything's kind of working status quo for them it really upsets the apple cart when Tut has a desire to start making some changes let us cross the sand at that so that the world may bow about our objective is to secure this kingdom that is all this thing thing about Egypt at that time was that they were a bit insulated from the world they didn't need walls around their country because the enemies were a desert away but they were out there and everyone coveted denial I mean that was the lifeblood come over the ridge and look at your 800 background dressed as warriors and your heart sinks for second wow this is a big location that's one of the reasons we're going to Africa to get the size and scope but you also want to get in show the nitty gritty and the dirty and really rough it up and that's where we get taught than log us and car we get them right into the battle the men fight for you you need not be in the middle of this moment that is exactly where I need he's basically inventing guerrilla warfare in front of our eyes he's put his men hiding he's leading the bad guys the Mitanni into a trap but in order for that trap to work he's got to put himself in harm's way we see tut taking what he's learned from kha and really becoming a leader so at the end when tut is injured and we see her mm find him we believe that he's gonna help after all this they just fought and bled together on the battlefield the twist is he does not lose him for dead isn't so much as tough gonna die after our one we know that the story goes on the fun of it is how's it gonna get out of this one while looking for an Egyptian soldier I've seen near Egyptians yeah tsukada is a great character she really represents everything that's opposite of touch life as much as it's the love story he's inspired by her and he's inspired by the world around her to make Egypt a better place pure means were over 2,000 years old when Tut was Pharaoh they were built by generations before him so they've been part of the Egyptian culture for eons in fact they're still standing today is pretty amazing the Pharaoh he's dead no he cannot be dead like he's dead so she loves her brother as a brother she's not in love with him yet he's the Pharaoh she's his queen the battle is won you speak of victory when the Pharaoh is dead we must pray Osiris greets him I think we know that a moon knows that there's more that went down and just touch losing his life in battle you've never been a devoted man of the temple general I am pleased what I love is that he's not afraid to hint that he knows the general did not tell the truth in her student carloon who helped lead us to victory he's as much the victor as myself or Haarmann Tutankhamun once told me faith is not what you're given it's what you take at the heart of it is a real sincere emotional dilemma for her because she finally gets the man of her dreams and they can rule together and started Kingdom together that it could cost her her life I believe that Karl will prove to be a great leader make all the arrangements in the confines of his chambers I can be truthful we absolutely know that he wants to be Pharaoh but we also see this other side to him that it continues to make us question how devious he really is we don't have opportunity again to make her on this string and defy that history and claim for ourselves but others believe to be rightfully there Egypt the most advanced civilization on earth envied upon for our wealth and culture but most of all our great fair

Channel: Paramount Network

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Keywords: Spike (TV Network), Tutankhamun (Monarch), Ancient Egypt (Literature Subject), Avan Jogia (TV Actor), Ben Kingsley (Film Actor), Nonso Anozie (TV Actor), Sibylla Deen, Kylie Bunbury, Peter Gadiot, King Tut (Composition), Egypt (Country), Egyptology (Field Of Study)

Id: bGl2GD2eBb4

Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 20 2015